My FIRST Time Hearing Janis Joplin! ANALYSIS of "Ball & Chain" as a Patron Choice Winner!
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- I have never heard Janis Joplin before, but have heard a LOT about her from all of you. And as intrigue set in, our Patrons voted this performance of "Ball & Chain" to the top of my list. And WOW. What a performance! I was not expecting any of this. . .
Join professional opera singer Elizabeth Zharoff, as she listens to Janis Joplin for the first time, performing "Ball & Chain” Live.
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Performed by Janis Joplin, Big Brother and the Holding Company
Words and Music by Willie Mae Thornton a.k.a. Big Mama Thorton
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Elizabeth Zharoff is an international opera singer and voice coach, with 3 degrees in voice, opera, and music production. She's performed in 18 languages throughout major venues in Europe, America, and Asia. Currently based somewhere between Los Angeles and Tucson, Arizona, Elizabeth spends her days researching voice, singing, teaching, writing music, and recording TONS. She also plays Diablo and Dungeons & Dragons.
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There are great singers, there are emotional singers, there are emotive singers, there are perfect-pitch singers, there are powerful singers... And then, somewhere above all them, there's Janis.
We call them...charismatic voices.
Couldn't have said it better, one of my favorite singers of all time.
Rest in power Janis ❤
Yeah, well...if nails on a blackboard works for you...
@@quinn-tessential3232 obviously that isnt the deal here because she was world famous. you dont get to her level by being nails on a blackboard. you are the outlier.
Just in case it hasn't already been shared.. the 'ahhh' face moment in the audience was Mama Cass Elliot.. another amazing vocal talent who tragically left this place way too early at 32 .. heart attack. :-( Thank you for giving Janis a listen. Such a unique gift and talent.
I thought it was her - one great singer admiring another - priceless shot!
I was going to leave this comment, thank you. :)
Yep! It is!
And Mama Cass, BTW, was also one of the organizers of that year's Monterey Pops Festival.
I saw an interview with Mama Cass where she talked about how awestruck she was at that moment. Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane was there as well and talked of being totally amazed.
The "wow" lady at the end is none other than the great Mama Cass, and like you, experiencing Janice for the first time.
Aw, you beat me to it! LOL! I've always loved the glimpses of Mama Cass at Monterey.
yup 18:17...wow indeed.
Pretty sure this was everybody’s first time
As an opera singer, I think Elizabeth would be particularly fascinated by Joplin's version of Summertime (from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess). It's a vocal masterpiece, and I dare say the most memorable and expressive version there is.
I love it!
100% she neeeds to watch that!
Yes.... agreed...
Agree good call on Summertime
Agree
Janis autographed my draft card drew a heart and wrote Don't go! I was blown away. 😊
That is something special, a signature of our time, from a leader of the movement! ❤
Did you go?
Great video capturing why she was who she was and how we all enjoyed her so much.
The woman in the audience is Mama Cass.
Now, that is a thing. Fabulous.
I was a stagehand for several of her performances and travelled as with her as such. She was a very nice person as well. I saw first hand how hard it was for her, since learning her background, it is a miracle she gave us the music she did. Everytime since she died when I hear any of her songs, I cry. And I was a nobody who met her and spoke only a few sentences to her, "good morning, have a good show!" It was like you were in a different dimension around her.
You obviously appreciate what only a very few had a chance to experience. No matter how brief, there are people who have the ability to connect with someone in a very special way. For me Robin Williams was your Janis experience, except I was guest at a graduation and a few moments with Robin before he went out on stage to do his thing. But in just a few minutes I was so touched to my soul in such a loving way that I will never forget his kindness. My moment and your moment with Janis are true treasures of a lifetime.
@@stevendavid5370 Not to lessen your experience. Janis was probably like how you describe Williams right up to when it was her turn to perform, that is why I said a nice person. I was not unfamiliar with being on stage with a lot of "star" bands - stagehands, security, record execs etc just do their thing, and do right up to when Janis took the mic. Everyone simply stopped and stood there watching. When she put the mic down she was just Janis again but all the hands, security and execs simply didn't move or were able to be normal around her again. I think this is why she drank so much, how can you be such an ordinary person but see in everyone around you an anxiety to want you to be recognized by her. Because of my belief in God I was less affected. There were times when I was the only one not immobilized, that is not to say she did not affect me as well. She was a talent so far above any we will not if ever see that talent again.
What a great experience did you have. What a unic moment to be able to read this 50 years later tanks to web connection. You must have been very young at that time.
@@CICORIA977 I was just turned 20, we celebrated Janis' 27th birthday even though it was past (weird but muscians always were doing weird things, or maybe her official birthday was different - I don't know the story), her last, with the Grateful Dead in Calgary.
You were still lucky to work with Janis, even at a distance like that. I never met her, even tho I was living in the Haight Ashbury at the same time she was.
I saw Janis in concert several months before she passed. I sat on the floor right next to the stage. It was almost too close. Her pain was so raw and so intense. It was overwhelming for a 17-year-old college student with not much experience in the world. To this day, the picture of her standing right above me is clear as a photograph.
I can't have been any sadder when she, Jimi, and Jim passed so close together, all at 27 years of age. It was such a wipe out. Those years were exciting, historic, and cruel.
If you watch a longer clip of this performance, up to when Janis leaves the stage, you will see that she almost skips of the stage with a smile. Despite emoting all though the song, she is pleased with the audience reaction (they just went nuts). She was brilliant.
You are right! She clicks her heels
The lady they showed in the crowd a couple times with the sunglasses on, if someone hasn’t mentioned it already, that was Cass Elliott, the lead singer of the mamas and papas, the heavyset girl. Her voice is truly amazing as well. You should obviously check out some of her songs with them.
Beat me to that comment lol
She was in awe which was such a compliment to Janis. I agree 💯 about Mama Cass.
I had little doubt someone would point this out. And I don't think Elizabeth has covered Cass or The Mama's and the Papa's yet.
I’d love to see Elizabeth check out Mama Cass with John Denver singing Leaving on a Jet Plane if she hasn’t already. Beautiful performance that was.
The Mamas and the Papas were the primary organizers of this music festival in 1967 which launched the careers of several of the acts that were there, Janis was one of them.
The voice of a whiskey soaked angel. RIP Janis
My mom would refer to her as " the one that cries when she sings". Me: "Huh?" But then I figured out who she was talking about.
Southern Comfort was her poison
Yay, I added yore 100th upvote
Southern Comfort
The fact she brought you to the edge of tears at the end makes me happy! Janis does that.
I felt so excited for you in this one Elizabeth - could not wait for Janis to fully unleash onto you 😊 I hope this inspired you to explore her back catalogue. She was always 100% expression, soul and emotion. Just when you think she's run out of gas, she goes above and beyond! Such a huge loss when she passed. A bona fide legend. She'll never be forgotten ❤
As I'm sure others have mentioned, this was actually the SECOND performance of "Ball & Chain" that Janis delivered that day. Originally, the film crew who were documenting the Monterey festival had no intention of filming Janis. She was considered to be one of the minor acts at the show, so they didn't bother to get set up for her performance. And of course, that was a big mistake, because Janis blew everybody away. So the film crew went to the organizers of the show and asked them if they could convince Janis to come back and perform it again, which she politely agreed to do. Not easy to convince someone to sing the same song twice, but she did. And the word is that she did it even better the second time, which is what we're seeing here. This is considered by many to be an iconic performance, by an artist who, at the time, was still relatively unknown to most people. So this is kinda Janis' debut... and she totally nailed it.
Don't blame the film crew for this. Her manager refused to let their performance be filmed. Janis was so upset, realizin' this was the opportunity o' a lifetime. She did finally convince her manager to let their performance be filmed and the group was allowed to perform again, this time with the cameras rollin'. The rest is history...
IIRC, Big Brother's set on Saturday was not planned to be recorded. Joplin's performance was so remarkable they were scheduled for a second performance on Sunday which was recorded as seen here.
@@johncollier9280that would be a fired manager for me.
@@cassmcmlix You're probably right. I read that article years ago... but at least I got the gist of it.
Seems a bit like the singing equivalent of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s guitar, emotive, creative, wildly free and expressive.
Janis was sadly part of the “27 Club”, celebrities who died at age 27. Another one to consider for a listen is Jim Morrison, another unique free spirit.
Welcome to the world of Janis Joplin. She gave 120% in every song she sang. There will never be another “Pearl”
“Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?” - Janis Joplin
When she said "The guitar is giving me tingles" and I'm just thinking......wait till you hear her voice! You're going to be bliwn away!
totally unhinged, insane out of her mind, absolutely magical, she took me out earth and i landed in mars with this song.
Janis, she's pure emotion on stage, and that's sorely needed today, this is one of her best phrases." On stage I make love to 25,000 different people. Then I go home alone".
Only person close to Janis for pure emotion is Beth Hart.
Yes, I think that captures it perfectly. I love her passion in her singing. I love Summertime and Bobby McGee.
A most brilliant cover of Big Mama Thorton's song. She didn't even have her version out yet when Janis Joplin performed this and she absolutely CRUSHED it here.
Also, my favorite part is when the camera is panning to Mama Cass, who is transfixed and in awe of what she is hearing. Also, Mama Cass is no slouch as a vocalist herself. RIP to the both of them.
And Mama Cass was just one of thousands having that reaction! Monterey Pop Festival was never the same afterward...
I was just going to write about Mama.
Yes, this was the second day, they had no idea who she was an didn't film her. So they asked her to do it again to get it on film. 🙌
@@PSA78 They were going to film them the first night but the bands manager decided that they couldn't unless the filmmakers paid the band. The festival promoters were so blown away that they asked them to play again the next day. Interestingly, the shot of Mama Cass in the audience was filmed surreptitiously during the original performance. The camera people had been order by the band's manager to turn the cameras off but they just sneakily filmed the audience during it and ended up cutting it into the next day's performance. The ban later got a different manager, lol.
@@youbertu Not exactly . Mama Cass was the promoter of this event.
This was her first live concert, no one there new who she was… she blew everybody’s mind. Her stardom shot off on that day!
I’ve listened to this 1000 times, but just got goosebumps… again.
Janice was, in a word, primal. She went to the roots of a song, and dragged it kicking and screaming to places unimaginable. Powerful, emotional, nowhere near on any pitch known to man, she did things vocally that few, if any, ever could or did.
Very well said. ❤👍😊
Big Brother and the holding company was her best band - raw and primal
This lady opened me up to so many different genres of music. There will never be another janis❤
Shannon Hoon
@@janibeg3247 cheap thrills, best of the 60's west coast. Wish she'd stayed with big brother. Dave Getz is the only one still with us.
Janis had enough passion to overcome perfection.
That’s well put.
brilliantly put
agree.
Hell fire, yes! Unbelievable passion. This is much more than a song.
Wow....great choice of words.
Elizabeth, you should give a listen to more of Janis's tracks, in particular, "Bobby McGee" and "Piece of my Heart." She was truly a one-of-a-kind singer.
I love both of those songs and Summertime ❤
She did with her voice, what Jimi Hendrix did with his guitar. She invites us to feel what she feels and it is hard to resist. What she has cannot be learned or taught. It is instinctive in a primal way. I was nine years old when she passed away, the older that I get, the more I love her.
'Wild' is probably the best word that describes Janis. She was off the chain wild in every way possible.
A female Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
Wasn't he from Texas to?
She was. 100% she lived out loud.
When Mama Cass, (another great legend, from the legendary band, The Mama's and the Papa's) is blown away, and says "WOW!," you know you have watched and heard, one of the best/greatest singers ever!
Yup. Nuff said!!
I love that moment of Mama Cass in this video so, so much
And both left us WAAAAAY too soon 😢
My dad, Mort Feld (Firstenfeld) with McCune Audio mixed the shows and provided the live sound and feeds to overflow. He also recorded the shows. That is what your hearing now. I was only 15 but I was there. Part of the stage crew but usually running video camera in the pit next to the sound stack. Janice was a wake up call to so many of us. She broke the dusky ceiling that white girls couldn't bring the soul.
Oh man, super jelly ❤
She never cared to strain her voice when singing and I think in a way she knew her life was going to be short and she just went for it. She sang like this in every single performance. She was fearless with her voice.
When my mom listened to Janis, it was the only time i saw her happy and joyful, she danced and sang along. The rest of her life was sadness. Janis had great impact on people.
Janis is my mom’s favorite too ❤️
My mom's favorite was Elvis. When he passed, it was Iike a death in the family. I still love Elvis to this day. As little kids we would be dancing around to Hound Dog and his other hits. 😅
If a person wasn’t a young adult during the era, including the darkness, drugs, confusion, the war, friends & family dying or being blown to pieces… politics, etc, etc, etc…
It’s hard to understand the frustration, pain and emotion Janis poured out… she literally put her complete soul into her singing performances ❤Rest In PEACE.
We need to get back to the roots and dismantle this hierarchy
Amen
No war, darkness or drugs these days….🤨
@@thespanner5046 hahaha - nope, everything in this lovely world is just hunkey-dorey
Janis was great. The guitaristnwas probably under the influence of of some hallucinogenic.
i freaking love that you're so encapsulated by the beginning guitar riff! it's so expressive and conveys a whole range of feelings without stating them in lyrics, it's an incredible thing to hear cuz you don't hear that very often. not to mention Janis' incredible vocals that somehow drive this performance to the very max. truly a once in a lifetime performance from all of them!
James Gurley. Wish the camera had paid attention to him. Elizabeth needs a copy of Cheap Thrills. Combination of the Two, another gem.
😂
The woman with the "Wow" at the end is Mama Cass, of The Mamas and Papas", and one of the great vocalists of that era.
Knowing the very real pain that she endured in her life, I can't listen to her without the tears flowing. Janis makes you feel her pain. I miss her.
Same
This
Yes.
Exactly. I cry for her pain everytime I listen to her.. i love her & she is a goddess. So unappreciated by the people that knew her at home. Tortured soul.
I don't understand how this lady "The Charismatic Voice" can sit there and laugh the whole way thru the song while Janis is spilling her heart out in pain
The thing that always strikes me, when listening to Janis, is how many modern singers build their style on feigned emotion.
They learn the techniques for making it sound like you mean it.
The know how to make you feel like they're feeling a particular way.
Janis is one of those singers who doesn't feign anything.
She opens her mouth and lets the emotion spill out in its most raw and real form.
She's the reality that many singers learn to pretend to be.
She is the definition of blues
I keep coming back and rewatching this. It is wonderful how you analyze voices. Janis Joplin was a little before my time since I was born in 62 but these concerts were legend and the older kids in the neighborhood were listening to them.
18:20 this whole performance is FANTASTIC, but something about the late, great Mama Cass being shook by it makes it all the more mindblowing.
I read she was tr*pping at that concert! lol
The Mama approves, and so do we! 😍
Yes, Momma Cass reacting is so cool
Your comment about singers sometimes making ugly faces brought to mind the lead singer of the Alabama Shakes. She's really a belter and puts everything she's got into her songs
@@Judith-wq2jpBrittany Howard is fantastic...her solo stuff is good, too.
Janis gave her entire heart and soul in her performance. Not a thing was left on the table. She was a national treasure
And at that time, shunned by her hometown.
This is when you take what's going on inside and belt it out to the world. Hard thing to do. ❤
@@MsThebeMoon And vice versa. Janis wasn't too thrilled by Port Arthur (I think actually she hated the place), so I'm really thankful she came to SF.
You REALLY need to check summertime by her🎉❤
Janis is Greatest woman singer of all time !!❤️❤️❤️ Im from Ukraine and i listened her since i was 8!!!
When you were so entertained by the opening guitar riff I was thinking, "when you hear Janis sing, you'll get it". Janis Joplin was one of a kind. So tragic that we lost a voice like that, a beautiful human being like that, so early.
Yes! The guitarist is echoing Janis' tone, so well, here.
James Gurley was an under appreciated guitarist that's for sure! @@andrewsackville-west1609
I think that guitar was on drugs. Not necessarily the guitarist (though probably), but the instrument itself. And so it is perfect for the time.
Heroine @@wayneandrews1022
@@wayneandrews1022probably be easier to listen to, if one is on drugs... 😬
Janis didn't just sing with her voice, but with her whole soul and body, there will never be another like Janis.
Except maybe Joe Crocker
@@jmazoso no where near
Courtney Hadwin is Janis Joplin reincarnated. That girl embodies her spirit and soul perfectly. She was on American Idol and I got goosebumps when I watched her perform for the first time.
@@firehawk2324 ya i have seen her. She is good butno where near Janis. The girl is auto tuned so bad it is not funny. She cant do the slide to sharp b/c of this. If she can it is auto tuned out,
@@fredbays she wasn't autotuned on her original performance. Also, she's a kid. She was 13 (I believe) on her first performance. Give her a decade to practice and I think she'll be just as powerful as Janis.
The woman who said "Wow"28:25" her name is "Mama Cass" (Ellen Naomi Cohen (September 19, 1941 - July 29, 1974)from the group "the Mamas & the Papas" Elliot received the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary (R&R) Performance for "Monday, Monday" (1967). In 1998
still gives me the chills.
No one did anything like this before Janis. She was unique, and is still unequalled, fifty-five years later.
I still have my "Cheap Thrills" LP.
i also have Cheap Thrills and Pearl lps. I think next weekends JamJam day with my little one (pajamas, dad plays records and talks music and she and i do arts or crafts) will be a Janis and Jimi
Great album. Stood the test of time, still just ríps me up. Better today then way back then.
The woman in the audience was Mama Cass..if you aren't familiar; look her up. She had vocal power and control.
Fantastic album, even the cover art captured the zeitgeist of the age
Me too. LP, reel to reel tape and CD.
This was her coming out, and she wasn’t going to wow them with technical virtuosity so she punched them in face instead. It was brilliant, shocking & classic. I was an instant fan, but she really did have some proper chops too.
Cry Baby & Summertime (studio not live) are my personal favourites for showing off her vocal talent.
She was and remains the one and only, never to be duplicated or forgotten. ❤
Yes Cry Baby... and Her version of Summertime.but plenty more.
I’ve always been a fan of Turtle Blues too.
Also Little Girl Blue and Kozmic Blues
It's still too soon.
Janis is an intoxication. Never had opportunity to see her live. Wow!
Everyone in the east coast music scene had heard of this magnificent singer from the west coast. This was the performance that introduced them to Janis Joplin for the first time. So it was a very significant breakthrough performance for Janis and the band. They put everything into it.
I love this performance so much, MOSTLY for the look of “Oh, this woman isn’t my competition, this woman is a goddess.” on Mama Cass’ face. I remember hearing that, up to this exact moment, Cass Elliott and Michelle Phillips were under the assumption that Janis did exactly what they did and was a direct threat to their popularity, and I think Mama and Papas had played earlier so the girls sat in on Janis for the first time and, at that performance, realized she wasn’t a counteract but instead was doing something totally different and that something was wholly unbelievably amazing.
Apparently Janis and BB&THC played on the Friday with no TV cameras and were asked to perform again on the Saturday. One reason I prefer her Frankfurt version is that the cameras were in front, not behind her as in the Monterey concert
One of the greats.
There's this awesome doc of big brother and the dead touring across Canada... The festival express
Awww…that was Mama Cass. I thought she looked familiar. ❤
She’s like, Hello Goddess.
Fifty-six years after the fact, this performance still knocks me off my feet. I shake, weep, and sit slack-jawed.
Well put
Me too! 👍
Me too !!!what a performance,speechless still weeping 10 minutes later !!!she's something!!!!!!
You love her from a technical POV. Those of us who were there through her too short life loved her from a purely emotional POV. The gift of sight was not required to SEE her beauty. All we needed was ears and a heart.
Really, This Woman's Work! Makes me cry every time ❤
I’m 76 so I was a teenager back then and I’ve been on stage with Janis and I have tears in my eyes. I remember the crowd of those days, we were so energized. 🎉.
I'm also 76. You are so fortunate. tears here, too.
I wish I had been a teen then…music seemed a lot more real,no lip syncing,music was always live and people seemed a lot more loving
59 years old here. I went from Baltimore to visit a friend in LA back around 2000. We went to the Whiskey A Go Go for the first time, where I saw hundreds of signatures on the walls, doors, etc and the one signature that stood out was Janis'
I seen Janice in 1968, inn San Jose CA. There will never be another Janice. See was great!
@@leah9084 I was a wee 4 year old in 1968. You were so lucky.
Janis was not only an incredibly talented performer, but she is one of the very rare polyphonics out there. If you listen to her song Cry Baby, its very pronounced in the opening of that one.
Yes. It's amazing to hear the overtones and undertones in her singing. It sounds like she's using her chest voice and head voice simultaneously.
Mama Cas' reaction - who was watching Janis' performance... is the best summary of what Janis Joplin's live performance represents as a true artist.
😜🤷😉✌️🎶💃💃💃
"Unleashed." Summed her up on one word. Perfect.
Janis was all about raw, authentic, emotional expression. It is rough, it is raw, but it is extraordinarily beautiful in its own way. One of Janis's blues heroes was Big Mama Thornton, one of whose records was titled, "STRONGER THAN DIRT!"
The miraculous thing about this woman is: once she approaches a microphone and performs, no human can be indifferent. You may love it… you may hate it… but you cannot deny it. Janis was confrontational. You had to deal. She was dangerous… and unsafe…and undeniable. Stop and consider what other artists in the last 70 years you could say the same thing about. A dangerous artist. God love her.
And she was also very insecure and jealous of other performers who had the misfortune of grabbing the spotlight from her if they performed on the same bill. Like how she had Linda Tillery barred from performing on any bill that Janis was the headliner.
@@stevenmeyer9674 yes. She was a troubled person in many ways.
@@iambecomepaulnormal people rarely make great art.
'Dangerous' is perfect. I wanted to say 'feral' but that sounds a bit disrespectful (even if I mean it with nothing but respect).
@@michaelbeelby1995actually I think feral is another good descriptive for Janis.
If I can go back in time, this concert would be on the top of my list. To see Jimi and Janis would have blown my mind.
The lady saying "Wow" at the end is Mama Cass of The Mamas and Papas, who did California Dreaming amongst other great songs.
Those of us who grew up listening to her are so glad you have rediscovered the great Janis! Her soul was in pain, and that is what she shared with her listeners
Check out Beth Hart too 🍻
Remember, at that time there was nobody like her, so when the crowd saw this performance they were literally blown away.
Etta James was before her
Especially Mama Cass if this is the performance I’m thinking of. But I believe that was afternoon and this looks like night
@@raidrfrk yes but I was 18 in Los Angeles when Janis ‘hit’ and Janis was just different. It actually took a while for me to appreciate her.
Still isn't anyone like her. She was like a supernova. Burst to blinding brightness, then slips away.
You have to put it into perspective! Yes Etta is amazing but she's the controlled version of Janis, not as unhinged and bombastic, but more importantly, back then the vast majority of people only new of Etta from the radio sometimes playing the studio version of "At Last". There was no internet to see her live and she primarily played in black clubs in black neighborhoods of a handful of cities. So when Janis came out and played ifo festival crowds like this people were blown away.
I had this record when it was released and when playing it my old mother (only 45 but old to me :) came in to my room and just sat there listening.
Then she said "I love her", nothing more.
My boss saw her a million times in the 60's at free out door shows! She was pre arena rock so she played lots of outdoor and small venues. Janice was a true blues singer.
I don't think there has ever been anyone more expressively authentic than Janis. She poured her soul into every song. Like she was saying, "Do you feel this? Have you ever felt this? This is how I feel about it" with every drop of honesty in her being.
Cry Baby is one of them. I will always love me some Janis Joplin. Me & Bobby McGee is a personal fave and Summer Time..
It always surprises me how none of these musical performance reaction channels ever recognize the "WOW" woman, Mama Cass Elliot of The Mamas And Papas, who was considered to have one of the best voices of her generation before, like Janis, she died way to early.
Right?! They were a vocal group first and foremost. I always thought they were widely known to “real musicians”….
I was 14 when my Dad took me to NYC to see "Monterey Pop" where this clip comes from and was amazed how many new groups performed at the Festival - Janis especially took me by surprise - her performance seared my heart and brought me to tears and it still happens - that voice was the sound of a broken heart - so glad you were impressed by her vocal range and don't forget Big Brother released their first LP in 1966 WAY BEFORE Led Zeppelin and Judas Priest - she died shooting what they call "Chinese Rocks" which is pure un-cut and fatal heroin in her hotel room during the time she was recording her final LP "PEARL" (1971) with the Full-Tilt Boogie Band - there are many video documentaries and they are all worth watching!❤
this is one of my favorite songs and i love that your reacting to it
Her studio version of Summertime is sublime. Just a beautiful song! While I can cover a few of her songs, I can't sing that one! I wish to God I had that range!
Then the band Sublime did a version of Summertime 🙂
@@drumzRfun1 maybe so, not taking anything away from them, they're a great band, but Janis's version is pure beauty.
She is the heart of what the '60s were. Lots of pain and anger. She was in the first generation to let that realness out.
You put your finger on it!
No she wasn't. Jesus.
Perhaps the greatest live vocal on CZcams. Mama Cass’ reaction is everything.
Music in the 60's really pushed the envelope with its sound. Janice was one of the best on stage. May she rest in peace!
Janis took all of the years of hurt and pain she had growing up, and then erupted like a volcano with it when she performed. The emotion so strong it knocks you over even on film and this many years later.
The pearl. Her singing was always coloring outside of the lines. You feel her voice, the pain, happiness, the anger. Its all there. True she doesn’t hit clean notes but she is full energy
It is not her aim to hit clean notes which she surely could if she w anted to.
I've got to say this: love, love, love your reaction to Janis' singing! And I also loved all the explaining you did - I generally love hearing experts talking about things I don't know, especially art, be it cinema, music, theater, painting or architecture. Thank you very, very much!
It was the '60s. We were pushing all the boundaries.
Boy I could write a book on this performance! One of my faves by anyone EVER! She drips with passion. Janis didn't have a very happy childhood and never felt accepted by those around her. She was filled with loneliness and pain, and every bit of it comes out in her singing. Her voice shows it, her face shows it, her whole damn body shows it! My favorite part is watching her feet and legs, and they way she almost seems to levitate at times. I've watched this at least 100 times and could watch it 100 more. By the way, that was Cass Elliot of The Mama's And The Papas being wowed in the audience. Janis wasn't really well known outside of the bay area and most of the people in the audience had never seen her before! The same is true with Jimi Hendrix and Otis Redding who performed at the same concert and were also mostly unknown. I could go on and on but I'll stop now. You will read much of the same in other comments. Thanks for reacting to this song! Love ya forever Janis!
She was a broken soul, to say the least. And she left Texas where she grew up and was rejected by her peers and headed to Frisco to find her way. And when she made it and was a true rockstar she gathered her strength and headed back down to her hometown of Port Arthur, Texas, to attend her high school reunion. She went to show them all that she got the last laugh at her tormentors, but it kinda backfired on her and she left even more miserable than when she arrived. The way she was flamboyantly dressed didn't go well with her Texan peers and she couldn't take the rejection, yet again, from those that she had desperately yearned for acceptance, approval and even admiration. She escaped back to Frisco and very soon after she was found in L.A. dead of an overdose.
She was instinctual and like Stevie Ray Vaughan with the guitar had that 'groove' flow that so little possess.
You might wanna take a listen to Ray LaMontagne. His performance in England was unbelievable. His "Shelter" performance was a highlight and "Empty", as well.
I was going to say the same,a lot of legendary acts,
Great info, thanks.
Monterey Pop Festival was organized by Momma Cass and was the introduction of, not only Janis, but also Jimi Hendrix. There was A LOT of acid going down. This was Janis' second performance of the song. The video crew didn't record it the first time because she was thought to be a minor performer and she was asked to do it again.
Love that the video panned to Cass and her amazed expression 😊
It was her manager that told them not to film it. She was so upset that they let her perform the next day.
Her interpretation of different songs is absolutely incredible. As others have mentioned, Summertime and I would also add Little Girl Blue are both worth deep dives especially comparing with original performances.
This whole video was so amazing from both of you!
I was 7 yrs old when I was introduced to Janis music by my eldest brother. I was so devastated by her passing . I was so young but the impact of her expressing herself was “Awww” to me.
She’s was One of a kind!!!
Ohh the woman with the sun glasses at the end who says “WOW” that’s Mama Cass Elliott. She’s was a classic also❤
RIP to the Both of em’❤
She died before I was born but I started listening to her at 16 when my friends were into Backstreet Boys 😂 etc. I was grooving to Janis, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Deep Purple, Etta James, The Carpenter's, etc. Janis is my all-time favorite female singer. ❤❤❤❤ I am still in awe of her, too after 30 plus years of listening to her.
There is no other singer who affects me like Janis. When she sings the blues, it sounds so authentic, like it's from a wounded place deep in her soul. I always find myself wishing I could have given her a hug and told her it would be alright.
You need to hear Janis sing "Me and Bobby Mcgee", very cool!
I freaking love that song and I'm 100% a metal head. 😅
I like the line " it feels sooo personal" gosh doesn't it though... truly soooo Epic! I'm loving this reaction!!!!!!!
Every time I've ever heard her do this one, I cannot help but cry. Not out of sadness, but from feeling the way she can emote the injustice of life. She has a way of pulling you into whatever she's singing. You see how she insists you not only hear it but you feel it. I'm surprised you weren't aware of her, but it's very interesting watching someone discover her and enjoying it for the first time.
There's only 1 first time hearing Janis! I'm so glad to be here for this reaction! 💖
I do too. Even during this one with the breaks and everything.
Janis was amazing. This performance got her national attention, but her singing evolved as she went.
I would suggest “Cry Baby”, or especially “Work Me Lord” as indications of where she could have gone.
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"Summertime" Elizabeth would freak out on that one also.
Man.. "Summertime".. Aaaawww (exhales in awe)
@@Paul_xs420 yesssss. Summertime is the first one I would've had Elizabeth listen to. I really really REALLY hope she does at some point :)
Her Summertime is phenomenal
@charismatic voice The lady that had the awed face in the audience was the great Mama Cass. Please listen to Summertime, my favorite. I love everything about Janis & still cry for her painful life. I love her.
This performance makes me want to cry. The thing that amazes me about that final cadenza, as you aptly described it, is the sheer beauty and control of it, the softness... after everything she'd just done with her voice, that seems impossible to me, just magical.
I played guitar for a woman I watched in awe, completely take over the minds of an entire crowd. She too was a Janis fan and a beautiful songwriter. But Janis just like her will grab you by the throat and you walk away being changed.
I saw her perform in person and to this day it was unforgetable and unmatchable. I get goose pimples. It was so intense that I was worried for her. Thanks
I am not generally jealous but I will make an exception for you. 53 years of miserying
+JanKirb Wow, you must be 100 years old! ;-)
@@svenlima not quite but getting there , I was a young lad then
I did too in 69 at Atlanta pop.
Lol my family tells me I'm 69 but I'm staying 29 forever! I loved Janis's voice. My favorite Mercedes Benz with no music accompaniment.
I never get tired of watching this clip of Joplin at the Monterey Pop Festival. And that bass player is just trippin' balls. 🤩
As old as I am, this is the first time for me hearing this song by Janis Joplin. She had such a dynamic voice with a lot of power at times and other times she is somewhat mellow. My favorite song by her is "Me and Bobby McGee", where she sings it normal...but kicks in with a little more power in the middle. She was a very talented singer and if she didn't overdose on drugs, I think she would still be singing and showing the singers and groups today on how its done.
I've always loved seeing Mama Cass being mesmerized in the audience. Janis was not well known until this performance. That was Mama Cass at the end mouthing "Wow!"
I've seen this performance before. What gets me every time is how blown away Mama Cass is as she bears witness to this amazing performance.
I am so glad you mentioned Mama Cass. It wasn't mentioned during the video as to who that was saying "wow" at the end. It adds a lot more impact to that little cut-away because Mama Cass was such a phenomenal singer in her own right, and she was blown away by Janis.
It’s always pretty special when someone hears Janis unleash her wildly raspy voice for the first time. I don’t think anyone ever has any idea it’s gonna come out like that. Then she goes all-out and goes so intensely into it, but always in her own signature way. I think she had that much creative, vocal and performance ability all bottled up inside. Then she got onstage, or into a studio, and she could awesomely cut loose.
Janis sang her heart, soul and pain out every time. Just not on stage but even in the studio! Her voice cuts like a razor right trough me! A rusty dull razor that makes you feel her pain! I'm gonna love and listen to her till the day I die! ❤💔
As an old guitarist I'm forever indebted to my older brothers and sisters for exposing me to Janis. I believe that if a person wants to know more about Janis they should watch the Dick Cavett interviews. Janis was a truly beautiful person. When I think of the way she died, alone overdosing, I get a lump in my throat.
This performance was recorded at the 1967 Monterey pop festival. It’s their second performance, because the band refused to allow the first performance to be filmed, but after some convincing, they performed a second time, This was really the coming out of Janice Joplin. I enjoy watching young people listen to the music that I grew up with for the first time. The Monterey pop festival was put on by the Mamas and the Papas, that’s why the close-up of mama Cass, in association with Lou Atler who was their record producer. I do believe you can find the entire Monterey pop festival on CZcams somewhere.
Please MORE Janis Joplin- every precious few live performances are worth hearing and seeing. There is only one Janis and she will leave you flabbergasted every time. A truly beautiful person who could make the coldest person feel a thousand emotions through her voice.
It's doesn't matter if you have a good voice if you don't touch the listener. Janis just grabs your heart immediately and effortlessly.
To whoever posted this, thanks for taking me back to my childhood.